Smarmer is making me ill, literally. Yes, I’m a pensioner. I always thought the Winter Fuel Allowance, started by Brown/Bliar, was a bit of typical Socialist thinking, in other words, daft. It was obviously welcome but having been in business I know money doesn’t grow on trees, that money had to be earned by a business somewhere to be stripped away by Government out to buy its votes.
It always felt like I was being bought by an act of state sanctioned charity. It’s withdrawal has stirred mixed feelings, the main one being that the Country was lied to as well as the callousness of the regime that could be so dishonest. It’s left me wondering what comes next, I think I’m in genuine fear, I’m genuinely disturbed.
It’s quite notable that the young left wingers I see and hear contributing to GBNews are extremely radicalised. They are very much in favour of the withdrawal of WFL and other anti pensioner policies. They are totally indifferent to old people, it’s almost as if we’ll have to walk around with blue stars stitched to our clothing, we’ll be forced to publicly denounce ourselves. Who voted for these stupid clowns?
Courage mon brave. This is classic bait-and-switch from the mad marxists, it is what they do.
Think of the scorpion travelling on the back of the tortoise across the river.
The OAPs are not yet in the position of the 50,000 Polish officers at Katyn but we know that these maniacs are capable of this cruelty at any moment.
Cheer yourself up by going into lawful rebellion as per clause 61 of Magna Carta. Just fire off a letter to our WEF king and it is job done. Then you can seize a castle and that should keep you nice and warm. You will then be with team Duke of Rutland.
Last year I started getting WFA. On the odd day when it was really cold I thought, âI have a bit of extra money, I will put the heating onâ. Should Mr Milliband be reading here and getting very excited, those cold days included wearing a fleece, huddling a hot water bottle, and wearing a wheatie bag, but I still needed more. I could afford the heating but WFA stopped some of the guilt.
I am here with Covid and some of the previous few days have involved shivering. The heating came on all by itself due to global warming but I was able to enjoy it. I damn all those politicians involved in Covid, including Davos man Starmer who prefers Davos to Westminster who cannot afford his own spectacles. For pensioners who really cannot a bit of extra heat, being ill with Covid is yet another worry.
Debs, first, I sincerely hope you feel better very soon. Having been free of the covids since the scam started, I dread catching the bug, and think what it’ll do for excercising my dog, keeping the home going etc.
The original safety-net of compassion by previous Labour administrations, at least helped those in need of the small comforts you describe, but I can say now, that the first pensioner who is found dead in a freezing flat will cause more anguish than these sh*ts we sadly have in power have ever envisaged!
It’ll be more than milkshakes from the rapidly increasing numbers of the elderly who will certainly make life so difficult for this disgraceful bunch of intellectual failures, they will rue the day they lied so comprehensively back in July.
Thanks Scrob. Had Covid last year too( (my birthday both times) and it laid me flat. This year not as bad, so hopefully if you get it now, you could still walk the dog, as long as you wrap up warm. A friend who got it for the first time, got antivirals from the hospital (she has other things) and i assume they helped.
Flotsam,
Very few people voted Labour , it was the poor performance of the Tories and their globalist policies which in effect put Starmer in No 10.
Millions of Tory voters decided not to bother voting because they had no belief that returning a Conservative government would result in a change in direction.
Millions more realised that the country had been betrayed by the globalist coalition of LibLabCon and voted for the only nationalist party, Reform.
Probably close to ten million voters have rejected the old political class , the ancien regime ie LibLabCon. But they hold all the levers of power and , as we have seen , are willing to use them ruthlessly to suppress protest or any form of opposition. They will impose ever stricter censorship to prevent the people from knowing inconvenient facts and use propaganda to undermine Reform at every opportunity .
Democracy died sometime ago but most people donât know that yet and perhaps donât care !
I wondered whether red big beasts like kinnock or comrade g brown would speak out against the sue gray government over the killing of pensioners ⌠But did i miss it ?
BBC were mentioning Steven Lawrence and the McPherson report that said there was a canteen culture and institutional racism .
Well if there is institutional racism there can also be institutional other traits, such as
Institutional indolence
Institutional self serving
Institutional cowardice
Institutional snobbery
Institutional culpable ignorance
Institutional deviousness
Institutional circling the wagons
Institutional negation by delay
Institutional couldnât give a damn about the taxpayer
Institutional must be a world leader in something no oneâs bothered about
Institutional getting more powers
Institutional treat the public as stupid
Institutional loving everything foreign especially foreign institutions and treaties
Institutional adherence to an ideology that damages Britain.
Institutional contempt for the British/ English/ working class / middle class / Christians / normal stuff etc
Another day, another act of utter stupidity. The High Court has decided that the Planning granted for a new coal mine in Cumbria didn’t take account of climate change so has stopped it. It’s clear that the green propaganda has worked on quite a few people many of whom are now total fanatics. The argument put forward by the Greens was that burning the coal produced would accelerate global warming. The counter argument correctly stated that there would be no change in emissions as we would be burning that coal rather than producing energy from imported coal. So our energy policies are now being run by Lawyers and left wing Islington eco zealots. Millibrain will of course not intervene. The Chinese will be laughing like drains.
Swiss banking authorities are laughing all the way to their bank in Basel where they control everything. One ring to rule them all? This is all about carbon reduction, especially if that carbon is no longer producing for the Swiss banking authorities. In this case, they will cut your winter fuel allowance and criminalise you if you burn coal or wood to stay alive.
Swiss Banking authority really doesn’t care as long as you believe in the left/right divide. If you think Starmer has anything to say in what is going on there is no hope for you.
Greens should be disconnected from the national power grids, both gas and electricity. They should then be made to produce their own ‘green’ energy. If they can’t then, for a large fee, they can be connected to a neighbour’s supply and the neighbour can then sell that energy at 10x the going rate if they so choose, or turn it off altogether.
I had thought that the mine would go ahead as it was to supply a special sort of high quality coal for the steel making industries. But with what happened in Port Talbot this last week: no steel manufacturing / no need of ‘special’ coal. The end looms nearer.
GBN have just confirmed that they were the only channel to have a reporter at Sheffield CC when sentences were handed out to the Pakistani grooming gang from Rotherham. If true, then it stinks, and makes you wonder what the hell the other channels are afraid of ?
We are increasingly being bound / restrained by an anti-human network of Nirvana seeking fools from top to bottom. Gulliver style.
Difference is, the public is awake while being bound up with the daily increasing tethers being attached.
Did you blink?
Did you miss it?
On the BBC 1 6 pm news, buried at about 6.12pm, they spent a whole 30 seconds mentioning that about 6 people had been sentenced to a total of about 107 years. I may be wrong on the exact detail because it was over in a flash. The crime was the systematic abuse of two young girls in Rotherham, trafficked around by Muslim men for Muslim men. A picture showed the perpetrators, none white of course.
Yet it was presented as if a minor item before the half time pause. Talk about burying bad news.
Absolutely disgusting doesnât cover it.
Meanwhile in two tier Kierâs dominion, a judge incredibly has ruled that a pro Palestinian non-white agitator/ demonstrator who on the march held a placard of Rishi Sunak as a coconut, was doing so to be satirical and has found her not guilty of racism.
Now coconut is used usually by BAME people as a derogatory term for a black person who is âwhite on the insideâ in other words generally supports the British way of life.
But mysteriously a judge has ruled it is OK for pro Hamas supporters to do this.
But you try using hurty words about illegal asylum seekers and see what happens. Why theyâll let out convicted criminals to find space in jail for you.
MSM constantly on a worldwide prowl to find wimmin victims. So a conference in Albania with Afghan wimmin fits the bill and tells how terribly they are treated back home. This reported by Times Radio.
No time given to all the UK men who went to Afghanistan and were killed or injured and it occurs to no one that importing large numbers of young males from this country runs the risk of wimmin in the UK ending up being treated like they are in Afghi.
Could have been an invalid in a wheel chair or some other, ‘Optional Extra’ feature to achieve a top score. What about the neighbour / relative of a black World Athlete burnt to death?
Just back from a week in Norfolk visiting relatives. What a joy not an enricher in sight. Itâs just like England used to be.
Even the public footpaths are free from multiculty nonsense unlike the Yorkshire Dales where I live. Here on a few footpaths there are now occasional signs pointing in the direction of Mecca ! Mysteriously some have been uprooted or defaced. I hope that enrichers get the message.
I recently enjoyed a visit to Norfolk too and noticed just how, it reminded me of how our once great country used to be.
Also, there were no locals stabbing each other whilst i was there and not many people hiding their faces.
The political fall out from the winter fuel allowance cut won’t go away – and now the nights draw in, temperatures drop and energy prices rise – but in fact there’s more of a two-pronged attack on the elderly from this regime.
Esther’s hope as key vote backs law change on assisted dying (Daily Express banner headline yesterday)
Calm down dear, he’s only just persuaded his MPs to vote for the OAP’s fuel cut ‘cruel’ law.
You know how children tend to invent their own pet words and phrases, their own peculiar lingua franca. Mr AsI’s ‘grubby spawn’ (his pet term for his own wonderful fine daughters) had their own playground ‘diss’ for their peers. As I recall it was first coined at the time of the tamagotchi craze (There’s one for the teenagers)
The mocking saying, popular with the kids, went: “This shows you’re obsessed”
Esther Rantzen: I may ‘buzz off’ to Dignitas for sake of my family (Daily Express, 19 December 2023)
We must give Dame Esther her final campaign victory (Daily Express, 21 December 2023 – Merry Christmas grandma)
Dame Esther’s ‘precious Xmas full of smiles’ (Daily Express, 28 December 2023)
Esther’s tears over ‘cruel law’ (Daily Express, 20 January 2024 – Happy New Year!)
Victory! Esther wins commons debate on right to die (Daily Express, 15 March 2024)
“Estherâs hope as key vote backs law change on assisted dying (Daily Express banner headline yesterday)”. But, eventually, when in place, the number of Government options for the retired/elderly will increase:
‘You are convicted of a Thought Crime and your punishment will be, 6 months jail time or, you apply to be “assisted” to die. No other penalty is suitable: you are poor and in ill-health and probably will not last out the jail time; you are too ill for work in ‘Community Service’ and you have no money for a fine………….
“Rhianan, who was born in Essex but moved to Derbyshire in 2012, was a looked after child at the time she died.
She was detained in October 2020 for downloading a bomb-making manual and charged with various offences the following April.
The teenager, who had autism, was due to stand trial in March 2022, but charges were dropped in December 2021 after evidence emerged she had been groomed by American extremist Christopher Cook.”
Why ‘nudge’?
It is called ânudgeâ after the book by Richard Thaler (who went on to win the Nobel prize in economics) and Cass Sunstein which set out how people are not the rational economic actors beloved of conventional economic theory â but can be influenced by âchoice architectureâ into making better choices in their own interests.
The other night – ITV put out a âfollow up â to the post office drama – lots of emotion and human interest – you know – people crying before the advert break .
As I watched – and they finally got to Paula Vennels and her Gang I realised there was a big chunk of the story missing .
It was the link between the post office and The State – the civil servants who monitored the post office and then the ministers âŚEddie Davy got away with his guilt – but there must be others who have not paid any price. Which is wrong âŚ
Not a million miles from all those civil servants enjoying âPartygateâ and getting off Scot free while the admittedly useless Blue Labour government of the day got it both barrels from the media, BBC, and all and sundry.
Still, as with the Sue Grey appointment and the judge letting off someone for racist comments at a Pro Hamas rally, the ruling class know which side their bread is buttered.
I saw in the Daily Express that you can now be fined (either ÂŁ300 or ÂŁ1,000, both sums appeared) if your chimney is seen with smoke coming out of it.
At first I thought itâs another of those daft green laws but then I remembered the caring Labour lot have removed the WFP from over 80% of the recipients.
This new law is to prevent old people from gathering wood and burning it in their fireplaces to keep warm this winter.
The BBC are, as always, massaging the news. They know that for the old people, the future years will involve being killed off one way or another. That is the only solution to rid the country of the only real hamperers / objectors to the current ‘change’ needed to satisfy the WEF in achieving their Nirvana.
Telegraph is running a serial of a book by an undertaker – itâs by Graham Brady who was a blue party MP and chairman of the 1922 committee for the now dead party âŚ.
I wonder if anyone will bother reading it – yet alone buying it – even when it turns up in a 3 for a pound charity shop .
The blues have destroyed Britain and their legacy is just pouring more manure on top of it âŚ. But theyâve all got their pensions and golden handshakes âŚ
Starmer laughing at his own joke about freezing out the pensioners, and making the gesture normally associated with boy-racers, describing a Jodrell Banker…
Bloody hell, this disgraceful Labour government is acting as though it’s been given the keys to someone else’s toy cupboard, and it’s trashing everything held dear by true British Citizens!
Hopefully, an ageing Labour MP will be on the sick-list of the frozen by Christmas, and a by-election will tell these lying charlatans exactly what they can expect come May…
The headline describes the truth of the matter and why a) The Ukranians tried to take Kursk and b) Why the UK and USA are considering escalating the conflict yet again.
Because Russia are winning.
But if you read the content of this article, you would think Ukraine are winning !.
Amazing BBC. NOTHING matters to them except their political agenda.
China, North Korea, Iran et al supplying arms and missiles to Russia without a care in the World. But the technologically advanced US/Europeans providing weapons to Ukraine? Unreal. Balance has evaporated.
I have a question…can anyone tell me what Jay Blades is actually good for? As far as I can see it’s sweet FA…All he does is stand at a counter, wearing a flat cap and an apron and takes beloved, but broken family pieces…and hands them on to someone skilled who fixes them. That’s it!
However, this evident lack of any talent hasn’t impaired his meteoric rise to fame and fortune. The BBC absolutely love him. He’s everywhere…
Repair Shop…that thing with David Jason, he’s done Comic Relief, Loose Women, The One Show, Children in Need, Celebrity Catchphrase and been awarded an MBE. But WHY?
Now, of course, it’s all coming out about him abusing his wife and all those sycophants that were previously promoting this geezer are running for the hills.
Apparently, he’s “resigned” from his role as chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University. Which beggars the question, what in the name of God was this bloke doing in the role in the first place?
His progammes are being pulled and pretty soon he’ll be about as invisible as the unlamented Huw Edwards.
Jeff, you and millions of others have asked the same question, and don’t forget either the programme with King Charles about a couple of knick knacks he had knocking about. Not forgetting pairing him up with Judy Dench ( I understand poor Jude is suffering badly with failing eyesight, so she may not have known exactly who she was partnering ! )
Blades as you say came to prominence painting chair legs on Money for Nothing, then they got him to share the hosting – well the original host was female and white !
Of course the Beeb did the same thing with Nadya who also claimed an MBE for what? Winning a cookery show and making a dodgy cake for her Majesty (ah but she wore a hijab so a big tick ) She too was sent on discovery travelogues, er no not Luton but her cultural home either India or Pakistan.
I’m so glad the Beeb clearly have their head in their hands with their latest “to do” – I never liked the bloke anyway.
Any ideas why a ‘man’ who stabs an Army major in broad daylight in front of witnesses can not be tried until NEXT YEAR whereas white working class people who put hurty words on the internet, or who shout at police dogs can be charged, prosecuted, and jailed within a few weeks?
Half the reason is they’re pleading guilty.
The accused should have starved the regime of this show trial circus.
But I guess it might wake up a few asleep citizens.
‘Our winter fuel payment goes into the holiday kitty’
Only the bBC could write this article (extract below). Luckily they have found a state salaried pensioner who has not just suffered an inflation related 20% reduction to their pension pot and does not need the WFA. The bBC has no right to post this article because to my knowledge they have never explained the unfunded state salaried schemes to the plebs and therefore people will not understand why this f…ing idiot does not speak for the 75% who have very average pensions. John will no doubt have been retired for the last 30 years. I will have to live to c100 to achieve the length of his retirement to date.
âThe money is just for the holiday kitty,â says Jon Harvey of the ÂŁ300 he was given every winter to help with heating bills. âI could also use it to go out for a nice meal.â
The 80-year-old, like all pensioners in England and Wales, was given the winter fuel payment (WFP) automatically â until this week when the new Labour government voted to change the rules.
Now only pensioners who qualify for certain benefits will receive it, an estimated 1.5 million people. Last winter 10.8 million people got the payment.
Jon, a retired police officer, tells us âitâs about timeâ the rules changed as âthere are people who need it more than meâ.
Means testing does allow Government to pry into the private financial lives of people. Useful info going forward for inheritance tax, care contributions and other benefits.
Yeah, NLP, .one of my favourite topics, featherbedded public sector final salary pensions.
Whatâs the betting that when Rachel Reeves unleashes her war on the retired come budget time, the axe will fall only on those with private pension pots. And the public sector will magically be unaffected. After all, who needs a pension pot when your pension will be fully paid and protected by future taxpayers.
Now THAT WOULD be a way to reduce the debt massively – limit public sector pensions. It wonât happen in million years.
Iâll just mention once again that in one year in the 2010s the NHS future taxpayer-funded pension liability increased by more than the entire NHS budget for healthcare.
It may not be a well-known fact, but ‘Jon’ could simply send the money he wants to forego “because there are people who need it more than me”, straight to HMRC, who will willingly take any contriobutions so offered, and this money will be effectively distributed back to the populace at large through lower taxation for everyone else. Simples ! as they say.
Of course, this also applies to those who spout about increasing taxes on people to pay for more public sector spending….. but none of these self-indulgent and self-important people will ever do it either. What they really mean is that everyone else should pay more taxes, because they haven’t got the courage of their own ‘convictions’.
n-lp, I worked for nearly 18 years* in business so I have an occupational pension (although I had to fight to get it and threaten the PF with legal action) as well as the State Pension. Together, in total, they represent an income close to my leaving salary in 1988. That means I have lost the Winter Fuel Payment and cannot claim Pension Credit.
* I did work for myself after leaving the business world but did not achieve ‘greatness’ in my chosen field. However it then enabled me to be a carer for a parent who needed it.
“BBC payments to MP Diane Abbott ‘breached guidelines’
Published 30 August 2012”
The BBC Trust has ruled that Labour MP Diane Abbott should not have been paid appearance fees by political discussion show This Week for the past two years.
A spokeswoman for BBC News said that they “note the findings” of the Trust.
Andrew Neil has got his war drum out. (I’d chip in for a crowdfunder to give Neil a rifle and a ticket to Kharkiv)
I see ads like this are ramping up
Dangerous idiots like this guy populate key positions in the #DeepState — we are hack to Doctor Strangelove levels of inanity married to insanity in key positions of power that trigger nuclear annihilation. https://t.co/FTO2aVDvw2
“it could leave some over-65s cold this winter.”
“The vast majority of over-65s ”
“only to over-65s ”
“wealthy over-65s has grown.”
Pension age is actually for over 66s these days…
‘ Shelagh Lind, 70, is ÂŁ2 per week over the pension credit threshold, so will lose WFP. She now fears for the months ahead – and says sheâs lost faith in Labour as a lifelong supporter of the party.
âI am so cross – I had that money earmarked and now itâs gone,â she says._’
She’s right, but a shame she didn’t lose faith in Labour in 1999 when her Tony Blair decided to bomb Serbia to give the local Muslim separatists a country, or when he started flooding Britain with the worst immigrants from the worst countries…
They finally came for her radiator, and the coin dropped.
School budget contributions for teacher pensions were about 16% of salary until around 2019. Then they went up to 23%. Earlier this year they went up to 29%. Imagine getting that in the private sector. We should call it a paynrise.
One quarter of a school budget now has to be set aside for the pension provision of the teachers.
Almost no-one knows this, for some mysterious reason the BBC never mention it when pay awards are being discussed.
This shit will eventually bring the public sector greedy grab of Joe publics cash to an end when normal people begin to realise how they are being robbed by unions and their barons in the Labour Party and kick âpublic sectorâ Labour back into the long grass where they belong so that people who actually work for their pay get priority over the army of time-servers with big union backing.
Forced myself to listen to from our propaganda correspondent-
1 – anti trump piece on reaction to the interview
2 – Africa and monkey pox – send money
3 – Muslims taking over a town in Italy – any resistance is âfar right â evil – at least they are fighting back instead of surrendering
4 off switch âŚ
Portraits of our local heroes form the backbone of AĂŻda Mulunehâs major exhibition at Impressions Gallery.
AĂŻda Muluneh, the acclaimed Ethiopian photographer, celebrates the diversity of the UK in 2025 with Nationhood: Memory and Hope. This outstanding collection of new photography serves as a modern-day insight into the UKâs four nations â and shines a spotlight on those individuals who quietly but tirelessly work to make our world a better place.
And then there is âmoneybox â – which should be called â get more benefits ââŚ.
A story about 2 70 year old disabled Welsh people who wonât get the ÂŁ300 winter fuel payments – they have been targeted to die by the labour government âŚ
The Comrade presenting the show didnât mention that the government is his own – deep red – ⌠I was thinking about the attitude the comrades at the bbc would have been if it had been a blue government
The comrade then had someone from age UK who I think was a labour MP once âŚ. Waste of air
No mention – of course – of the over generosity of the blue government who gave people ÂŁ1200 last year âŚ.
They are going after Farage.
Like all Dictator regimes they want to eliminate the opposition.
If they stop him being paid for his 3 hours per week at GBN itâs said he will lose a ÂŁmillion.
Theyâre after Lee Anderson as well.
Could GBN not pay him but keep the same sum of money in another account, then, when (if) sanity returns and TTKâs lot are booted out, he can be given a âbonusâ for doing a similar 3 hours per week job at GBN and nobody would lose out.
Of course, all the other MPs with second jobs would have to give them up. Doctors, Lawyers, Secretaries of State (the entire Cabinet who get many 10âs of ÂŁ1,000âs on top of their ÂŁ90,000)
Beth Rigby Interviews: Labour’s top second jobs earner David Lammy says he’ll ‘live with’ any potential ban on outside income
Tottenham MP David Lammy has the highest number of second jobs of any MP and is Labour’s biggest outside earner.
Alix Culbertson
Political reporter @alixculbertson
The shadow foreign secretary has come under scrutiny this year after Sky News’ Westminster Accounts project revealed he tops his party’s list with additional earnings of ÂŁ243,800 since this parliament started in 2019.
He is in the top 15% of earners of all MPs, and has the highest number of second jobs, with ÂŁ99,300 coming from his regular radio show on LBC and the rest coming from speaking engagements, books and consultancy work.
It would be a really depressing thought that nuclear war breaks out because Lammy gave missiles to Ukraine which were fired into Russia and Putin responded .
Meanwhile Lammy withdraws help from Israel thereby supporting Islamic Hamas âŚ
I was just thinking about the comments from Two-Tier Keir, and, of course, constantly reiterated ever since by his minions, regarding offsetting the loss of the Winter Fuel Payments in the next pension rise.
Hold on a minute, you utter morons…
a) this is not going to happen till the next financial year – the fuel payment was supposed to be delivered this year.
b) any increase awarded in pensions is to enable pensioners to cope with inflation, so it’s already ‘spoken for’. It’s not like it’s a gift that can be freely taken back by you in some financial finagle.
Let’s face it, Starmer and Co., you are blowing billions on public sector pay and pensions, claiming to simply correct the inflationary effect on salaries, without asking for any other quid pro quo….such as, I don’t know, productivity increases, perhaps, to get back to the productivity levels we used to have ! So why rob pensioners’ inflation payments ?
Labour MPs expensed over ÂŁ400,000 for energy bills before axing winter fuel payments MPs are able to pay for some energy bills using taxpayer money under the current expenses rules
The good news about the increase in the state pension next April is that 4000 pensioners will have died of cold by then, so won’t be around to get it. See how careful Sir Keir is with public money.
On GB News thereâs a banner scrolling along the bottom of the screen saying âaround 780,000 pensioners will lose their WFP under new government plansâ
I thought it was about 10 million.
Am I missing something?
BBC In-Depth âThe size of your council tax bill, in England and Scotland, is based on what your flat or house was worth 33 years agoâ
Am I being stupid? I thought that the money councils needed came, firstly, from the Government, then from Council Taxpayers. The way the money from Council Taxpayers is calculated is determined by the RELATIVE value of houses; small terraced houses pay less than mansions. The houses were valued in 1991 but surely the relative values are basically the same, one house is worth ten times the other for example. Of course, the rich people in big houses DONâT pay 10 times as much tax, the Establishment isnât that stupid. Without a doubt any revaluation that may take place will lead to, not a fairer distribution but higher taxes all round. Maggie had it right with the Poll Tax but lefties and liberals soon got shut of that.
Pop eye – apart from imposing CGT on primary residence I reckon revaluing the community charge will be the big threat – I think it would take a long time – plus huge numbers of appeal âŚ.so maybe theyâll do a partial revaluation by introducing a higher level to really screw the ârichâ âŚ
⌠on the evidence so far the Gray / starmer / reeve pact seems capable of doing any loony policy and refuse to u turn however insane that policy might be ( see winter fuel)
This is ether a lie or ignorance. The amount of your bill is the rate set for the band the council consider your house to be in compared to smaller or larger dwellings.
Therefore it makes little difference at what exact time the band was allocated to your particular house which in theory should not change over a number of years.
The actual amount you have to pay is your house band x whatever the council have decided for any particular year.
So all this waffle hinting that people are not paying enough council tax is pure political spin and B**llox.
A lot of houses have had extensions over the years, their banding will rise. Any improvements will result in a higher value, fitting solar panels and heat pumps might make a difference.
The most obvious increase will come from extra bands. The current highest band is band H which covers house values over ÂŁ320,000 at 1991 prices. Depending on where the house is, it’s current value could now be anything up to a few million. Palaces and Mansions are band H of course.
Incidentally the property values are set by a Government Agency, the Valuation Office Agency. I have successfully reduced a property banding by appeal. As with business premises which have a rateable value I reckon the VOA deliberately set values higher than they should be. Most people don’t challenge them.
DT puts up a list of the MP s who voted to end the winter attowance – the âabstainers â – such as Hilary benn – seems as amoral as that huge list of starmer disciples âŚ
Dealing with them in the future will be easy . The first question to bury them will be âdid you vote to kill 4000 old people each winter ?â – the likes of âbennâ will claim her didnât support it ⌠but he did ..
I think someone will correct me, but back in the mists of time I seem to remember bring told that abstentions went with the vote. If this correct, then all the abstainers were covering their ‘arrises. They can now say hand on heart “I didn’t vote with the ayes.”
Apologies if I’ve already mentioned this, but not so many years ago we had swans missing from our little river in my village. The culprits were Polish/Albanian migrants who decided they would adorn their feasting table a treat. I won’t say we have an outpost of the KKK locally, but feelings were pretty high and volunteers pitched up for Swan Watch So the “eating pets” comment didn’t surprise me too much ( not forgetting how many cats regularly go missing ….)
There was a fellow in North Lincs, near Flixborough had a day fishing lake, stocked with Carp. He had to ban Eastern Europeans fishing because they took most of his stock. It was supposed to be catch and release.
The DT reports that surprisingly Jeremy Bowen has denied that the BBC is a propaganda arm of the of the Islamic Hamas Terrorist Gang ( but he doesnât describe them as terrorists of course )
STARTS Jeremy Bowen has dismissed a report that found the BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times at the height of the Israel-Hamas war.
The BBCâs international editor labelled the Asserson report a âdeeply flawed documentâ after it concluded the corporationâs coverage was deeply biased against Israel.
The research, which analysed four months of output, accused Bowen of excusing Hamas terror activities and comparing Israel to Putinâs Russia.
But during a BBC Masterclass event on âreporting war impartiallyâ on Friday, the 64-year-old took issue with its findings.
In a recording obtained by The Telegraph, Bowen said: â[Itâs] a deeply flawed document, in my opinion.
âThe Asserson report is a report that has been put together essentially saying we are anti-Semitic, isnât that right?â
David Jordan, the BBCâs director of editorial policy and standards, could then be heard correcting him, saying: âItâs basically saying weâre biased against Israel.
âThis is going through the BBCâs complaints process at the moment, so weâre probably best not to say anything about it.â
Bowen replied: âWhat I say, itâs about the truth. Weâre in the truth business. If we cannot tell the truth, something has gone very badly wrong and we have failed in our objectives.
âSo I will always try to tell the truth, but sometimes the truth is complicated⌠Itâs not âon the one handâ, and âon the other handâ, and the truth lies somewhere in between.
âNo, actually itâs sometimes the truth lies on that hand, and you have to say it, and I think that searching for some kind of spurious balance is entirely wrong.â
Greg Smith, the Tory MP for Buckingham, accused Mr Bowen of an âoutrageous responseâ.
âWhen in a hole, stop digging,â he said. âBut the BBC seem to have brought the excavator in and are making the matter a whole lot worse.â
âAn example of mistrustâ
It comes as MPs are set to pressure the BBC over an internal report on its coverage of Israel that has been âsuppressedâ for almost two decades.
Ordered in 2004 following repeated complaints of bias by the Israeli government, it was carried out by Malcolm Balen, a senior journalist.
The culture, media and sport committee is expected to raise the issue with the broadcaster when Parliament returns next month amid mounting criticism of its Middle Eastern coverage.
The Asserson report, which was led by Trevor Asserson, a British lawyer, has prompted fresh calls for the BBC to publish a separate internal inquiry, known as the Balen Report.
Lord Polak, the honorary president of the Conservative Friends of Israel, branded the decision to withhold the report âan example of mistrustâ.
The Conservative peer, who has previously called for the findings to be published, told The Telegraph: âEverything these days is about transparency and freedom of information. What is it that theyâre hiding in it?
âDonât be mysterious. By being mysterious, it allows people to form their own conclusions. If they want to just explain things, let us know what is it they may be hiding.â
Gary Mond, the chairman of the National Jewish Assembly, added: âIt is highly unfortunate that the findings of the Balen Report, produced in 2004, have never been published in the 20 years that have elapsed since. This has begged the question that the BBC is trying to hide something.
âWhatever those findings were, I do think that the BBC, as a provider of a major public service, has a responsibility to share the report and its conclusions with everyone. The National Jewish Assembly therefore calls for this to happen.â
Lord Austin, a crossbench peer, said: âThe findings of the Asserson Report are only the latest evidence of the BBCâs longstanding and deep-lying bias in its coverage of Israel.
âJeremy Bowen seems unable to acknowledge these editorial failings. If director-general Tim Davie is serious in his pledge to consider a deep systematic review of the BBCâs Middle East coverage, Mr Bowenâs deeply concerning track record should be right at the top of the agenda.â
The BBC has said its internal inquiry was commissioned âfor the purposes of journalismâ and so falls outside the scope of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.
âBalance of sympathyâ
Danny Cohen, a former BBC executive, last week warned there was an âinstitutional crisisâ at the national broadcaster and called for an independent inquiry into its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
Two leading Jewish groups, the Campaign Against Antisemitism and the National Jewish Assembly, added their voices to demands for a review.
The BBC last week strongly rejected claims in the Asserson report that its staff âcelebrated acts of terrorâ.
It said in a statement: âWe strongly reject the attack on individual members of BBC staff, all of whom are working to the same editorial guidelines.â
The corporation also raised âserious questionsâ about the methodology of the report, which used artificial intelligence to analyse nine million words of its coverage.
Stressing it was required to achieve âdue impartialityâ, the BBC said that this was already being achieved by its correspondents in lieu of the âbalance of sympathyâ the report wanted.
A BBC spokesman said: âWe have serious questions about the methodology of this report, particularly its heavy reliance on AI to analyse impartiality, and its interpretation of the BBCâs editorial guidelines.
âWe donât think coverage can be assessed solely by counting particular words divorced from context. We are required to achieve due impartiality, rather than the âbalance of sympathyâ proposed in the report, and we believe our knowledgeable and dedicated correspondents are achieving this, despite the highly complex, challenging and polarising nature of the conflict.
âHowever, we will consider the report carefully and respond directly to the authors once we have had time to study it in detail.
âThe most recent research shows that audiences are significantly more likely to turn to the BBC for impartial coverage than to any other provider. Independent research from More in Common found that the highest proportion of people thought BBC coverage of this story was mostly neutral.âENDS
So I am now hearing that the Prime Minister who canât afford to pay for his own spectacles m cannot afford to pay for his wifeâs dresses. There is something very wrong in the State of Denmark, or rather the United Kingdom. We have a very corrupt government.
The United States is preparing to fight the BBC over âFree Speechâ
âAmerica First Legalâ has obtained internal CDC Documents revealing British Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) collusion with the Biden-Harris Government Censorship Regime. At this meeting, the CDU outlined how they have been censoring the British public, and these documents expose how left-wing authoritarian governments across the globe are working together to attack free speech.
The document reveals how the British governmentâs Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) coordinates censorship programs across the whole of the British government. The British Government imposes its censorship policy on the media using an Orwellian organisation called OFCOM. The British government also engages its foreign policy apparatus to further its censorship agenda. The British Government promotes the manipulation of the global population into believing that there is no alternative to massive government censorship of social media. In 2021, the British boasted of a close working relationship with the U.S., Australia, and Canada, as well as bilateral relationships with 20 additional countries.
Bobby Kennedy also plans to confront the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) lead, Trusted News Initiative (TNI), another British lead censorship and propaganda organisation. The British use the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) to collude with social media platforms to target and censor rival online news publishers, violating the Sherman antitrust laws and the First Amendment.
The British Government is also confronting Elon Musk in its desperate attempts to hide the Midazolam, Southport and Almondbury censorship scandals from the British public.
Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Executive Director, said âWith no apparent appreciation for the irony that the First Amendment to our Constitution was adopted following our independence from Great Britain, these records show that the Biden-Harris regime apparently engaged with representatives from the United Kingdom on ways to more effectively censor the speech of Americans across the country. The Biden-Harris Administrationâs desire to silence speech and control what information Americans are able to obtain is so extreme, so pervasive, and so over-the-top that they are willing to listen to foreign governments explain ways to better violate core constitutional rights of the American people. Freedom of speech is essential to the success of our democratic republic, and for the continued betterment of humanity. We will continue to expose those who oppose free speech, and will continue to fight for the rights of all Americans,â
“One particular area of concern stems from one of Uefa’s fundamental requirements, which is that there should be no government interference in the running of football.”
A spokesperson for the DCMS said: âThe Football Governance Bill will establish a new Independent Football Regulator that will put fans back at the heart of the game, and tackle fundamental governance problems to ensure that English football is sustainable for the benefit of the clubsâ communities going forward.â
https://x.com/anfieldexile/status/1834512555168923988?s=61
đď¸ âpupils from prestigious private schools who went to leading universities were 52 times more likely to reach ĂŠlite positions in society than those who attended any other schools.â I rest my case. Privilege is embedded. Time for racial change đš
Nurses: Six months to save NHS… Despite the promise of extra billions in Chancellor Gordon Brown’s Budget a fortnight ago, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual congress in Bournemouth was told that the NHS was “at risk” (BBC, April 2000)
The prognosis worsens over time…
Three Months to Save the NHS… on the brink of disaster and the government must immediately prepare for an existential crisis this winter (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, August 2022)
Keir Starmer, prompted by Esther Rantzen and no doubt frustrated by previous administrations’ failed NHS reforms, perceives the only logical course of action to be to put it out of its misery…
At age 76 and with expert medical opinion convinced our NHS has less than 6 months to live… the precident is set
A law to allow terminally-ill adults with a life expectancy of less than six months to end their lives with medical help… Assisted dying set to be ‘rushed into law’… after Keir Starmer backs plans to fast-track it through the Commons… The Prime Minister is privately paving the way for a vote before Christmas (Daily Mail)
I believe it was the radical Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre, of the notorious French revolutionary Committee of Public Safety, who first set the trend of lawyers becoming national premiers.
He was the arch repressor of the Revolution’s opponents, enforcer of revolutionary laws and eliminator of counter-revolutionary elements, accepting the function of “public accuser” in 1791, he voted to support the introduce of revolutionary concepts into schools, in 1794 he wrote: Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue
Fun with flags
Inglorious flag wars tarnish the Proms (Sunday Times) – how so, you ask?
Soprano Angel Blue charms Last Night of the Proms audience (BBC) – you guessed it, she’s black
The clue was in the word ‘vibrant’: Angel Blue wowed the Royal Albert Hall with her vibrant, engaging stage presence (BBC)
BBC Proms overtaken AGAIN by EU symbols despite vow to ban ‘protest’ flags (GB News)
Thousands of EU flags to be distributed at BBCâs Last Night of the Proms… ‘We will continue to campaign until we achieve music without borders. Freedom of movement is a fundamental part of this.’ (Left Foot Forward, Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead)
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead… music without borders? I’m oddly reminded of Peter Gabriel’s Games Without Frontiers (1980)
Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching’s is blue
They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu
Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games
Hiding out in treetops, shouting out rude names
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers
War without tears
Games without frontiers
War without tears
Jeux sans frontières
Jeux sans frontières
Remoaners’ evening ruined as EU flags confiscated at Last Night of the Proms… Policy regarding flag-holding caused confusion at the Royal Albert Hall after some audience members had their EU flags removed. (Daily Express)
Two-tier Albert Hall?
EU flags confiscated from concert-goers at Last Night of the Proms… Confusion over Royal Albert Hallâs banned items policy frustrates prommers as security appears inconsistent (Telegraph)
Speaking of (supposed… proxy?) war without tears, games without frontiers – as we were just now…
Go it alone and let Ukraine fire missiles, PM told… after Washington stalemate, five ex-defence ministers say UK shouldn’t wait for US backing (Sunday Times)
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y’all
Edwin Starr (1970), Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1984)
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Happy Christmas ha! ha! Ha!
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Well done, my dear old thing, at least it is still the cricket season. đ
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Blast!
D.I.Frost had just nailed Paula Wilcox, (not in the Biblical sense, you understand), and I was rivetted!
Rivetted I say!
Carrying a large glass of red through to check in, after an experience like that is nigh on impossible, I can tell you!
But well done Brissles – you deserve the accolade from us mortal males!
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Brissles, I was having a quick fag break and you nipped in. Unfair ref.
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Oh bÂŁ$%&89$!
She’s done it again.
Grrr…
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Smarmer is making me ill, literally. Yes, I’m a pensioner. I always thought the Winter Fuel Allowance, started by Brown/Bliar, was a bit of typical Socialist thinking, in other words, daft. It was obviously welcome but having been in business I know money doesn’t grow on trees, that money had to be earned by a business somewhere to be stripped away by Government out to buy its votes.
It always felt like I was being bought by an act of state sanctioned charity. It’s withdrawal has stirred mixed feelings, the main one being that the Country was lied to as well as the callousness of the regime that could be so dishonest. It’s left me wondering what comes next, I think I’m in genuine fear, I’m genuinely disturbed.
It’s quite notable that the young left wingers I see and hear contributing to GBNews are extremely radicalised. They are very much in favour of the withdrawal of WFL and other anti pensioner policies. They are totally indifferent to old people, it’s almost as if we’ll have to walk around with blue stars stitched to our clothing, we’ll be forced to publicly denounce ourselves. Who voted for these stupid clowns?
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Flotsam
Courage mon brave. This is classic bait-and-switch from the mad marxists, it is what they do.
Think of the scorpion travelling on the back of the tortoise across the river.
The OAPs are not yet in the position of the 50,000 Polish officers at Katyn but we know that these maniacs are capable of this cruelty at any moment.
Cheer yourself up by going into lawful rebellion as per clause 61 of Magna Carta. Just fire off a letter to our WEF king and it is job done. Then you can seize a castle and that should keep you nice and warm. You will then be with team Duke of Rutland.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19520712.edinburgh-castle-article-61-magna-carta/
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Last year I started getting WFA. On the odd day when it was really cold I thought, âI have a bit of extra money, I will put the heating onâ. Should Mr Milliband be reading here and getting very excited, those cold days included wearing a fleece, huddling a hot water bottle, and wearing a wheatie bag, but I still needed more. I could afford the heating but WFA stopped some of the guilt.
I am here with Covid and some of the previous few days have involved shivering. The heating came on all by itself due to global warming but I was able to enjoy it. I damn all those politicians involved in Covid, including Davos man Starmer who prefers Davos to Westminster who cannot afford his own spectacles. For pensioners who really cannot a bit of extra heat, being ill with Covid is yet another worry.
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Debs, first, I sincerely hope you feel better very soon. Having been free of the covids since the scam started, I dread catching the bug, and think what it’ll do for excercising my dog, keeping the home going etc.
The original safety-net of compassion by previous Labour administrations, at least helped those in need of the small comforts you describe, but I can say now, that the first pensioner who is found dead in a freezing flat will cause more anguish than these sh*ts we sadly have in power have ever envisaged!
It’ll be more than milkshakes from the rapidly increasing numbers of the elderly who will certainly make life so difficult for this disgraceful bunch of intellectual failures, they will rue the day they lied so comprehensively back in July.
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Thanks Scrob. Had Covid last year too( (my birthday both times) and it laid me flat. This year not as bad, so hopefully if you get it now, you could still walk the dog, as long as you wrap up warm. A friend who got it for the first time, got antivirals from the hospital (she has other things) and i assume they helped.
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Ivor Mac Tin
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Sorry to hear you’re under the weather Debs. Nothing you can do except rest – but don’t watch daytime TV it’ll raise your blood pressure.
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Thanks Brissels.
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Deborah
Yes – do take it easy and get well soon . I think thereâs a lot of something about âŚ
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Debs, get well soon.
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Flotsam,
Very few people voted Labour , it was the poor performance of the Tories and their globalist policies which in effect put Starmer in No 10.
Millions of Tory voters decided not to bother voting because they had no belief that returning a Conservative government would result in a change in direction.
Millions more realised that the country had been betrayed by the globalist coalition of LibLabCon and voted for the only nationalist party, Reform.
Probably close to ten million voters have rejected the old political class , the ancien regime ie LibLabCon. But they hold all the levers of power and , as we have seen , are willing to use them ruthlessly to suppress protest or any form of opposition. They will impose ever stricter censorship to prevent the people from knowing inconvenient facts and use propaganda to undermine Reform at every opportunity .
Democracy died sometime ago but most people donât know that yet and perhaps donât care !
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Another phase in the Controlled Demolition of the UK. Last election?
Merely a hand-over of the baton in the race for total destruction. Pensioners first.
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I wondered whether red big beasts like kinnock or comrade g brown would speak out against the sue gray government over the killing of pensioners ⌠But did i miss it ?
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BBC were mentioning Steven Lawrence and the McPherson report that said there was a canteen culture and institutional racism .
Well if there is institutional racism there can also be institutional other traits, such as
Institutional indolence
Institutional self serving
Institutional cowardice
Institutional snobbery
Institutional culpable ignorance
Institutional deviousness
Institutional circling the wagons
Institutional negation by delay
Institutional couldnât give a damn about the taxpayer
Institutional must be a world leader in something no oneâs bothered about
Institutional getting more powers
Institutional treat the public as stupid
Institutional loving everything foreign especially foreign institutions and treaties
Institutional adherence to an ideology that damages Britain.
Institutional contempt for the British/ English/ working class / middle class / Christians / normal stuff etc
Does anything need a Reform ?
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Another day, another act of utter stupidity. The High Court has decided that the Planning granted for a new coal mine in Cumbria didn’t take account of climate change so has stopped it. It’s clear that the green propaganda has worked on quite a few people many of whom are now total fanatics. The argument put forward by the Greens was that burning the coal produced would accelerate global warming. The counter argument correctly stated that there would be no change in emissions as we would be burning that coal rather than producing energy from imported coal. So our energy policies are now being run by Lawyers and left wing Islington eco zealots. Millibrain will of course not intervene. The Chinese will be laughing like drains.
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Middle class virtue-signalling southern loonies prevent the creation of jobs in the North West
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Swiss banking authorities are laughing all the way to their bank in Basel where they control everything. One ring to rule them all? This is all about carbon reduction, especially if that carbon is no longer producing for the Swiss banking authorities. In this case, they will cut your winter fuel allowance and criminalise you if you burn coal or wood to stay alive.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/log-burner-fine-warning-9544460
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/homeowners-with-chimneys-issued-warning-over-new-rule-that-could-land-them-300-fine-this-month-457539
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/wood-burning-stove-owners-told-9496715
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/every-house-chimney-england-faces-194534325.html
Swiss Banking authority really doesn’t care as long as you believe in the left/right divide. If you think Starmer has anything to say in what is going on there is no hope for you.
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Greens should be disconnected from the national power grids, both gas and electricity. They should then be made to produce their own ‘green’ energy. If they can’t then, for a large fee, they can be connected to a neighbour’s supply and the neighbour can then sell that energy at 10x the going rate if they so choose, or turn it off altogether.
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Greens need also to agree never to use anything made of steel.
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The Marxists v The Public.
I had thought that the mine would go ahead as it was to supply a special sort of high quality coal for the steel making industries. But with what happened in Port Talbot this last week: no steel manufacturing / no need of ‘special’ coal. The end looms nearer.
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This decision to stop the new coal mine in Cumbria shows how treasonous the UK courts have become.
Look to see what they do:
Stopping coal production
Stopping oil exploration
Allow the illegal invasion of the UK
Allow building on green fields
Then add in the equally treasonous decision by MPs not to support our new iron and steel making in Port Talbot and Scunthorpe.
So if the UK has to defend itself again which it surely will how will we make: shells, ammunition, boats, aeroplanes, missiles.
Even the little Island of Pitcairn realised they needed to make iron for their survival and developed methods to do this.
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/other-cast-iron-products/reporter/pcn
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Lets hope the chinese and indians fire up a few more coal power stations
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GBN have just confirmed that they were the only channel to have a reporter at Sheffield CC when sentences were handed out to the Pakistani grooming gang from Rotherham. If true, then it stinks, and makes you wonder what the hell the other channels are afraid of ?
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They must have Islam- o- phobia.
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We are increasingly being bound / restrained by an anti-human network of Nirvana seeking fools from top to bottom. Gulliver style.
Difference is, the public is awake while being bound up with the daily increasing tethers being attached.
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makes you wonder what the hell the other channels are afraid of ?
The truth.
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Further to Brissles above.
Did you blink?
Did you miss it?
On the BBC 1 6 pm news, buried at about 6.12pm, they spent a whole 30 seconds mentioning that about 6 people had been sentenced to a total of about 107 years. I may be wrong on the exact detail because it was over in a flash. The crime was the systematic abuse of two young girls in Rotherham, trafficked around by Muslim men for Muslim men. A picture showed the perpetrators, none white of course.
Yet it was presented as if a minor item before the half time pause. Talk about burying bad news.
Absolutely disgusting doesnât cover it.
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Nothing about it on their website today either.
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Meanwhile in two tier Kierâs dominion, a judge incredibly has ruled that a pro Palestinian non-white agitator/ demonstrator who on the march held a placard of Rishi Sunak as a coconut, was doing so to be satirical and has found her not guilty of racism.
Now coconut is used usually by BAME people as a derogatory term for a black person who is âwhite on the insideâ in other words generally supports the British way of life.
But mysteriously a judge has ruled it is OK for pro Hamas supporters to do this.
But you try using hurty words about illegal asylum seekers and see what happens. Why theyâll let out convicted criminals to find space in jail for you.
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MSM constantly on a worldwide prowl to find wimmin victims. So a conference in Albania with Afghan wimmin fits the bill and tells how terribly they are treated back home. This reported by Times Radio.
No time given to all the UK men who went to Afghanistan and were killed or injured and it occurs to no one that importing large numbers of young males from this country runs the risk of wimmin in the UK ending up being treated like they are in Afghi.
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Atlas,
But not ten-out-of-ten.
Could have been an invalid in a wheel chair or some other, ‘Optional Extra’ feature to achieve a top score. What about the neighbour / relative of a black World Athlete burnt to death?
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Just back from a week in Norfolk visiting relatives. What a joy not an enricher in sight. Itâs just like England used to be.
Even the public footpaths are free from multiculty nonsense unlike the Yorkshire Dales where I live. Here on a few footpaths there are now occasional signs pointing in the direction of Mecca ! Mysteriously some have been uprooted or defaced. I hope that enrichers get the message.
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Wow! Unbelievable. The Islamic take over is happening faster than I thought.
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I can assure you, itâs being rectified. Itâs just behind the curve.
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I recently enjoyed a visit to Norfolk too and noticed just how, it reminded me of how our once great country used to be.
Also, there were no locals stabbing each other whilst i was there and not many people hiding their faces.
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Please stop talking about Norfolk – itâs a secret hide out for England âŚđ
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The political fall out from the winter fuel allowance cut won’t go away – and now the nights draw in, temperatures drop and energy prices rise – but in fact there’s more of a two-pronged attack on the elderly from this regime.
Esther’s hope as key vote backs law change on assisted dying (Daily Express banner headline yesterday)
PM, please keep promise to change ‘cruel’ law… Dame Esther’s assisted dying legislation plea (Daily Express banner headline today)
Calm down dear, he’s only just persuaded his MPs to vote for the OAP’s fuel cut ‘cruel’ law.
You know how children tend to invent their own pet words and phrases, their own peculiar lingua franca. Mr AsI’s ‘grubby spawn’ (his pet term for his own wonderful fine daughters) had their own playground ‘diss’ for their peers. As I recall it was first coined at the time of the tamagotchi craze (There’s one for the teenagers)
The mocking saying, popular with the kids, went: “This shows you’re obsessed”
Esther Rantzen: I may ‘buzz off’ to Dignitas for sake of my family (Daily Express, 19 December 2023)
We must give Dame Esther her final campaign victory (Daily Express, 21 December 2023 – Merry Christmas grandma)
Dame Esther’s ‘precious Xmas full of smiles’ (Daily Express, 28 December 2023)
Esther’s tears over ‘cruel law’ (Daily Express, 20 January 2024 – Happy New Year!)
Victory! Esther wins commons debate on right to die (Daily Express, 15 March 2024)
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Grim reaper not got to Esther yet – I suppose he is a fan of hers – she ll be giving him a lot more souls sooner if she gets her way âŚ.
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AslSeelt,
“Estherâs hope as key vote backs law change on assisted dying (Daily Express banner headline yesterday)”. But, eventually, when in place, the number of Government options for the retired/elderly will increase:
‘You are convicted of a Thought Crime and your punishment will be, 6 months jail time or, you apply to be “assisted” to die. No other penalty is suitable: you are poor and in ill-health and probably will not last out the jail time; you are too ill for work in ‘Community Service’ and you have no money for a fine………….
Ticks a lot of boxes.
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Apolgies if this has been posted already, but this is simply outrageous:
It’s difficult to believe just how corrupt the media now is.
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It really isn’t.
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Does make one wonder why president trump bothers with liberal managed tv interviews âŚ
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… or Conservative politicians agreeing to be interviewed by the BBC.
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BBC to report on back stories of all the rioters arrested? NO? Why not?
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“Rhianan, who was born in Essex but moved to Derbyshire in 2012, was a looked after child at the time she died.
She was detained in October 2020 for downloading a bomb-making manual and charged with various offences the following April.
The teenager, who had autism, was due to stand trial in March 2022, but charges were dropped in December 2021 after evidence emerged she had been groomed by American extremist Christopher Cook.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8n86n40wwo
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Why ‘nudge’?
It is called ânudgeâ after the book by Richard Thaler (who went on to win the Nobel prize in economics) and Cass Sunstein which set out how people are not the rational economic actors beloved of conventional economic theory â but can be influenced by âchoice architectureâ into making better choices in their own interests.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/nudge-unit
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The other night – ITV put out a âfollow up â to the post office drama – lots of emotion and human interest – you know – people crying before the advert break .
As I watched – and they finally got to Paula Vennels and her Gang I realised there was a big chunk of the story missing .
It was the link between the post office and The State – the civil servants who monitored the post office and then the ministers âŚEddie Davy got away with his guilt – but there must be others who have not paid any price. Which is wrong âŚ
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Not a million miles from all those civil servants enjoying âPartygateâ and getting off Scot free while the admittedly useless Blue Labour government of the day got it both barrels from the media, BBC, and all and sundry.
Still, as with the Sue Grey appointment and the judge letting off someone for racist comments at a Pro Hamas rally, the ruling class know which side their bread is buttered.
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Fed,
But surely, Ed Davy is still suffering for his crime?
Seems he is turning to crying/weeping every time I see him live being interviewed………….
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G
He deserved to lose his seat – but instead he got a bigger party – but he leans on his disabled kid when in trouble âŚ
There must be some journo he is looking at the people responsible for monitoring the Post Office and âtelling lies â to ministers âŚ.
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I saw in the Daily Express that you can now be fined (either ÂŁ300 or ÂŁ1,000, both sums appeared) if your chimney is seen with smoke coming out of it.
At first I thought itâs another of those daft green laws but then I remembered the caring Labour lot have removed the WFP from over 80% of the recipients.
This new law is to prevent old people from gathering wood and burning it in their fireplaces to keep warm this winter.
They really want them to freeze.
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It appears the BBC agree with the Labour Party that the OAP winter fuel allowance should be ditched.
Why can I say this so confidently?
Have a look at this webshite headline. What other conclusion can you draw?
‘Our winter fuel payment goes into the holiday kitty’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gegy4r9ndo
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The BBC are, as always, massaging the news. They know that for the old people, the future years will involve being killed off one way or another. That is the only solution to rid the country of the only real hamperers / objectors to the current ‘change’ needed to satisfy the WEF in achieving their Nirvana.
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Telegraph is running a serial of a book by an undertaker – itâs by Graham Brady who was a blue party MP and chairman of the 1922 committee for the now dead party âŚ.
I wonder if anyone will bother reading it – yet alone buying it – even when it turns up in a 3 for a pound charity shop .
The blues have destroyed Britain and their legacy is just pouring more manure on top of it âŚ. But theyâve all got their pensions and golden handshakes âŚ
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… and the BBC will dutifully do the Nelson / telescope / eye patch thing
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When I see the farce and how the BBC cover it up, I always imagine how they would have reported it if Boris were still PM.
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I’d always thought Voorderman should have stuck with TV quiz shows – but narcissism really is a plague ain’t it?
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I expect she will be on Only Fans soon.
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Carol Vorderman says 2+2=5 under labour
** having ‘man’ in her surname Vorder’man’
means she is part of the Patriarchy.
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…or that she’s become a total cock.
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Well, she’s had enough husbands/boyfriends in her time – but they never stay on the scene, I wonder why?
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I love Liz Kershaw almost as much as I despise Vorderman.
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Starmer laughing at his own joke about freezing out the pensioners, and making the gesture normally associated with boy-racers, describing a Jodrell Banker…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1948396/government-sneaks-out-winter-fuel
Bloody hell, this disgraceful Labour government is acting as though it’s been given the keys to someone else’s toy cupboard, and it’s trashing everything held dear by true British Citizens!
Hopefully, an ageing Labour MP will be on the sick-list of the frozen by Christmas, and a by-election will tell these lying charlatans exactly what they can expect come May…
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What? On their expenses?
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Ukrainians warn of being surrounded as Russia advances in east
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1epe546p5vo
The headline describes the truth of the matter and why a) The Ukranians tried to take Kursk and b) Why the UK and USA are considering escalating the conflict yet again.
Because Russia are winning.
But if you read the content of this article, you would think Ukraine are winning !.
Amazing BBC. NOTHING matters to them except their political agenda.
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The western Anglosphere reporting on Ukraine is really stinky …
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China, North Korea, Iran et al supplying arms and missiles to Russia without a care in the World. But the technologically advanced US/Europeans providing weapons to Ukraine? Unreal. Balance has evaporated.
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I have a question…can anyone tell me what Jay Blades is actually good for? As far as I can see it’s sweet FA…All he does is stand at a counter, wearing a flat cap and an apron and takes beloved, but broken family pieces…and hands them on to someone skilled who fixes them. That’s it!
However, this evident lack of any talent hasn’t impaired his meteoric rise to fame and fortune. The BBC absolutely love him. He’s everywhere…
Repair Shop…that thing with David Jason, he’s done Comic Relief, Loose Women, The One Show, Children in Need, Celebrity Catchphrase and been awarded an MBE. But WHY?
Now, of course, it’s all coming out about him abusing his wife and all those sycophants that were previously promoting this geezer are running for the hills.
Apparently, he’s “resigned” from his role as chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University. Which beggars the question, what in the name of God was this bloke doing in the role in the first place?
His progammes are being pulled and pretty soon he’ll be about as invisible as the unlamented Huw Edwards.
Another one bites the dust…
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Ah, but he’s diverse. Therefore a National Treasure.
Diversity is our strength. And strength is useful when beating your wife.
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He passed the colour shade chart test
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You forgot, he drips paint down chair legs. He’s the Banksy of chair legs, and just as talented.
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Jeff, you and millions of others have asked the same question, and don’t forget either the programme with King Charles about a couple of knick knacks he had knocking about. Not forgetting pairing him up with Judy Dench ( I understand poor Jude is suffering badly with failing eyesight, so she may not have known exactly who she was partnering ! )
Blades as you say came to prominence painting chair legs on Money for Nothing, then they got him to share the hosting – well the original host was female and white !
Of course the Beeb did the same thing with Nadya who also claimed an MBE for what? Winning a cookery show and making a dodgy cake for her Majesty (ah but she wore a hijab so a big tick ) She too was sent on discovery travelogues, er no not Luton but her cultural home either India or Pakistan.
I’m so glad the Beeb clearly have their head in their hands with their latest “to do” – I never liked the bloke anyway.
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Who is Gay Blades please?
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Dear bBC
Any ideas why a ‘man’ who stabs an Army major in broad daylight in front of witnesses can not be tried until NEXT YEAR whereas white working class people who put hurty words on the internet, or who shout at police dogs can be charged, prosecuted, and jailed within a few weeks?
Is this because we have a 2 Tier Justice system?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13769789/Man-24-accused-attempting-murder-Army-officer-uniform-near-barracks-Kent-faces-trial-year.html
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Half the reason is they’re pleading guilty.
The accused should have starved the regime of this show trial circus.
But I guess it might wake up a few asleep citizens.
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Why? Starmer’s Stasi’s and Khan’s Cops.
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‘Our winter fuel payment goes into the holiday kitty’
Only the bBC could write this article (extract below). Luckily they have found a state salaried pensioner who has not just suffered an inflation related 20% reduction to their pension pot and does not need the WFA. The bBC has no right to post this article because to my knowledge they have never explained the unfunded state salaried schemes to the plebs and therefore people will not understand why this f…ing idiot does not speak for the 75% who have very average pensions. John will no doubt have been retired for the last 30 years. I will have to live to c100 to achieve the length of his retirement to date.
âThe money is just for the holiday kitty,â says Jon Harvey of the ÂŁ300 he was given every winter to help with heating bills. âI could also use it to go out for a nice meal.â
The 80-year-old, like all pensioners in England and Wales, was given the winter fuel payment (WFP) automatically â until this week when the new Labour government voted to change the rules.
Now only pensioners who qualify for certain benefits will receive it, an estimated 1.5 million people. Last winter 10.8 million people got the payment.
Jon, a retired police officer, tells us âitâs about timeâ the rules changed as âthere are people who need it more than meâ.
Disgusting propaganda.
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Means testing does allow Government to pry into the private financial lives of people. Useful info going forward for inheritance tax, care contributions and other benefits.
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Yeah, NLP, .one of my favourite topics, featherbedded public sector final salary pensions.
Whatâs the betting that when Rachel Reeves unleashes her war on the retired come budget time, the axe will fall only on those with private pension pots. And the public sector will magically be unaffected. After all, who needs a pension pot when your pension will be fully paid and protected by future taxpayers.
Now THAT WOULD be a way to reduce the debt massively – limit public sector pensions. It wonât happen in million years.
Iâll just mention once again that in one year in the 2010s the NHS future taxpayer-funded pension liability increased by more than the entire NHS budget for healthcare.
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It may not be a well-known fact, but ‘Jon’ could simply send the money he wants to forego “because there are people who need it more than me”, straight to HMRC, who will willingly take any contriobutions so offered, and this money will be effectively distributed back to the populace at large through lower taxation for everyone else. Simples ! as they say.
Of course, this also applies to those who spout about increasing taxes on people to pay for more public sector spending….. but none of these self-indulgent and self-important people will ever do it either. What they really mean is that everyone else should pay more taxes, because they haven’t got the courage of their own ‘convictions’.
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n-lp, I worked for nearly 18 years* in business so I have an occupational pension (although I had to fight to get it and threaten the PF with legal action) as well as the State Pension. Together, in total, they represent an income close to my leaving salary in 1988. That means I have lost the Winter Fuel Payment and cannot claim Pension Credit.
* I did work for myself after leaving the business world but did not achieve ‘greatness’ in my chosen field. However it then enabled me to be a carer for a parent who needed it.
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Pretty clear that the blob establishment is going after Farage.
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RETROSPECTIVE?
“BBC payments to MP Diane Abbott ‘breached guidelines’
Published 30 August 2012”
The BBC Trust has ruled that Labour MP Diane Abbott should not have been paid appearance fees by political discussion show This Week for the past two years.
A spokeswoman for BBC News said that they “note the findings” of the Trust.
“note the findings” = IGNORED
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Is that Mary Bell the child killer?
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Huw Edwards is offering to help charities.
Save The Children, perhaps?
Or save the children from you, Huw.
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is he?
= using his unrepaid license fee lolly for doing nowt – to retain a troupe of PR snakes then.
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Snapchat campaign?
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Andrew Neil has got his war drum out. (I’d chip in for a crowdfunder to give Neil a rifle and a ticket to Kharkiv)
I see ads like this are ramping up
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But fits in with the WEF’s population reduction plans……………..
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About time for a thorough WEF reduction plan?
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Africa will survive ….
https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/greta-points-to-africa-maybe.html
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‘Our winter fuel payment goes into the holiday kitty’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gegy4r9ndo
“it could leave some over-65s cold this winter.”
“The vast majority of over-65s ”
“only to over-65s ”
“wealthy over-65s has grown.”
Pension age is actually for over 66s these days…
‘ Shelagh Lind, 70, is ÂŁ2 per week over the pension credit threshold, so will lose WFP. She now fears for the months ahead – and says sheâs lost faith in Labour as a lifelong supporter of the party.
âI am so cross – I had that money earmarked and now itâs gone,â she says._’
She’s right, but a shame she didn’t lose faith in Labour in 1999 when her Tony Blair decided to bomb Serbia to give the local Muslim separatists a country, or when he started flooding Britain with the worst immigrants from the worst countries…
They finally came for her radiator, and the coin dropped.
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School budget contributions for teacher pensions were about 16% of salary until around 2019. Then they went up to 23%. Earlier this year they went up to 29%. Imagine getting that in the private sector. We should call it a paynrise.
One quarter of a school budget now has to be set aside for the pension provision of the teachers.
Almost no-one knows this, for some mysterious reason the BBC never mention it when pay awards are being discussed.
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This shit will eventually bring the public sector greedy grab of Joe publics cash to an end when normal people begin to realise how they are being robbed by unions and their barons in the Labour Party and kick âpublic sectorâ Labour back into the long grass where they belong so that people who actually work for their pay get priority over the army of time-servers with big union backing.
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Forced myself to listen to from our propaganda correspondent-
1 – anti trump piece on reaction to the interview
2 – Africa and monkey pox – send money
3 – Muslims taking over a town in Italy – any resistance is âfar right â evil – at least they are fighting back instead of surrendering
4 off switch âŚ
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Bradford City of UK **future** culture.
https://bradford2025.co.uk/
Portraits of our local heroes form the backbone of AĂŻda Mulunehâs major exhibition at Impressions Gallery.
AĂŻda Muluneh, the acclaimed Ethiopian photographer, celebrates the diversity of the UK in 2025 with Nationhood: Memory and Hope. This outstanding collection of new photography serves as a modern-day insight into the UKâs four nations â and shines a spotlight on those individuals who quietly but tirelessly work to make our world a better place.
Black In Colour by Alex Anaughe
https://itsoninbradford.co.uk/events/black-in-colour-by-alex-anaughe/
** IF THE WORD WHITE WAS USED IT WOULD BE RACIST! HA H AH AHA HA HAHA H HAHAH! BLACK = GOOD. WHITE = BAD.
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And then there is âmoneybox â – which should be called â get more benefits ââŚ.
A story about 2 70 year old disabled Welsh people who wonât get the ÂŁ300 winter fuel payments – they have been targeted to die by the labour government âŚ
The Comrade presenting the show didnât mention that the government is his own – deep red – ⌠I was thinking about the attitude the comrades at the bbc would have been if it had been a blue government
The comrade then had someone from age UK who I think was a labour MP once âŚ. Waste of air
No mention – of course – of the over generosity of the blue government who gave people ÂŁ1200 last year âŚ.
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They are going after Farage.
Like all Dictator regimes they want to eliminate the opposition.
If they stop him being paid for his 3 hours per week at GBN itâs said he will lose a ÂŁmillion.
Theyâre after Lee Anderson as well.
Could GBN not pay him but keep the same sum of money in another account, then, when (if) sanity returns and TTKâs lot are booted out, he can be given a âbonusâ for doing a similar 3 hours per week job at GBN and nobody would lose out.
Of course, all the other MPs with second jobs would have to give them up. Doctors, Lawyers, Secretaries of State (the entire Cabinet who get many 10âs of ÂŁ1,000âs on top of their ÂŁ90,000)
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Beth Rigby Interviews: Labour’s top second jobs earner David Lammy says he’ll ‘live with’ any potential ban on outside income
Tottenham MP David Lammy has the highest number of second jobs of any MP and is Labour’s biggest outside earner.
Alix Culbertson
Political reporter @alixculbertson
Thursday 30 March 2023 14:34, UK
https://news.sky.com/story/beth-rigby-interviews-labours-top-second-jobs-earner-david-lammy-says-hell-live-with-any-potential-ban-on-outside-income-12845552
The shadow foreign secretary has come under scrutiny this year after Sky News’ Westminster Accounts project revealed he tops his party’s list with additional earnings of ÂŁ243,800 since this parliament started in 2019.
He is in the top 15% of earners of all MPs, and has the highest number of second jobs, with ÂŁ99,300 coming from his regular radio show on LBC and the rest coming from speaking engagements, books and consultancy work.
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It would be a really depressing thought that nuclear war breaks out because Lammy gave missiles to Ukraine which were fired into Russia and Putin responded .
Meanwhile Lammy withdraws help from Israel thereby supporting Islamic Hamas âŚ
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I was just thinking about the comments from Two-Tier Keir, and, of course, constantly reiterated ever since by his minions, regarding offsetting the loss of the Winter Fuel Payments in the next pension rise.
Hold on a minute, you utter morons…
a) this is not going to happen till the next financial year – the fuel payment was supposed to be delivered this year.
b) any increase awarded in pensions is to enable pensioners to cope with inflation, so it’s already ‘spoken for’. It’s not like it’s a gift that can be freely taken back by you in some financial finagle.
Let’s face it, Starmer and Co., you are blowing billions on public sector pay and pensions, claiming to simply correct the inflationary effect on salaries, without asking for any other quid pro quo….such as, I don’t know, productivity increases, perhaps, to get back to the productivity levels we used to have ! So why rob pensioners’ inflation payments ?
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Diversity Inclusion & Wellbeing Manager
NHS North East London
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Labour MPs expensed over ÂŁ400,000 for energy bills before axing winter fuel payments
MPs are able to pay for some energy bills using taxpayer money under the current expenses rules
Albert Toth
2 days ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-mp-winter-fuel-payment-energy-bills-expenses-b2610793.html
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The good news about the increase in the state pension next April is that 4000 pensioners will have died of cold by then, so won’t be around to get it. See how careful Sir Keir is with public money.
Next, a massive pay rise for GPs.
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On GB News thereâs a banner scrolling along the bottom of the screen saying âaround 780,000 pensioners will lose their WFP under new government plansâ
I thought it was about 10 million.
Am I missing something?
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BBC In-Depth âThe size of your council tax bill, in England and Scotland, is based on what your flat or house was worth 33 years agoâ
Am I being stupid? I thought that the money councils needed came, firstly, from the Government, then from Council Taxpayers. The way the money from Council Taxpayers is calculated is determined by the RELATIVE value of houses; small terraced houses pay less than mansions. The houses were valued in 1991 but surely the relative values are basically the same, one house is worth ten times the other for example. Of course, the rich people in big houses DONâT pay 10 times as much tax, the Establishment isnât that stupid. Without a doubt any revaluation that may take place will lead to, not a fairer distribution but higher taxes all round. Maggie had it right with the Poll Tax but lefties and liberals soon got shut of that.
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Pop eye – apart from imposing CGT on primary residence I reckon revaluing the community charge will be the big threat – I think it would take a long time – plus huge numbers of appeal âŚ.so maybe theyâll do a partial revaluation by introducing a higher level to really screw the ârichâ âŚ
⌠on the evidence so far the Gray / starmer / reeve pact seems capable of doing any loony policy and refuse to u turn however insane that policy might be ( see winter fuel)
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Popeye,
I think you are absolutely right about that.
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This is ether a lie or ignorance. The amount of your bill is the rate set for the band the council consider your house to be in compared to smaller or larger dwellings.
Therefore it makes little difference at what exact time the band was allocated to your particular house which in theory should not change over a number of years.
The actual amount you have to pay is your house band x whatever the council have decided for any particular year.
So all this waffle hinting that people are not paying enough council tax is pure political spin and B**llox.
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A lot of houses have had extensions over the years, their banding will rise. Any improvements will result in a higher value, fitting solar panels and heat pumps might make a difference.
The most obvious increase will come from extra bands. The current highest band is band H which covers house values over ÂŁ320,000 at 1991 prices. Depending on where the house is, it’s current value could now be anything up to a few million. Palaces and Mansions are band H of course.
Incidentally the property values are set by a Government Agency, the Valuation Office Agency. I have successfully reduced a property banding by appeal. As with business premises which have a rateable value I reckon the VOA deliberately set values higher than they should be. Most people don’t challenge them.
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DT puts up a list of the MP s who voted to end the winter attowance – the âabstainers â – such as Hilary benn – seems as amoral as that huge list of starmer disciples âŚ
Dealing with them in the future will be easy . The first question to bury them will be âdid you vote to kill 4000 old people each winter ?â – the likes of âbennâ will claim her didnât support it ⌠but he did ..
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I think someone will correct me, but back in the mists of time I seem to remember bring told that abstentions went with the vote. If this correct, then all the abstainers were covering their ‘arrises. They can now say hand on heart “I didn’t vote with the ayes.”
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The BBC describes Trump’s claims about illegals eating pets as “baseless”.
Oh yeah?
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Kentucky fried cat âŚ. Country gone to the dogs ?
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Apologies if I’ve already mentioned this, but not so many years ago we had swans missing from our little river in my village. The culprits were Polish/Albanian migrants who decided they would adorn their feasting table a treat. I won’t say we have an outpost of the KKK locally, but feelings were pretty high and volunteers pitched up for Swan Watch So the “eating pets” comment didn’t surprise me too much ( not forgetting how many cats regularly go missing ….)
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Same with all the ducks on our pond, Brissles!
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There was a fellow in North Lincs, near Flixborough had a day fishing lake, stocked with Carp. He had to ban Eastern Europeans fishing because they took most of his stock. It was supposed to be catch and release.
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The DT reports that surprisingly Jeremy Bowen has denied that the BBC is a propaganda arm of the of the Islamic Hamas Terrorist Gang ( but he doesnât describe them as terrorists of course )
STARTS Jeremy Bowen has dismissed a report that found the BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times at the height of the Israel-Hamas war.
The BBCâs international editor labelled the Asserson report a âdeeply flawed documentâ after it concluded the corporationâs coverage was deeply biased against Israel.
The research, which analysed four months of output, accused Bowen of excusing Hamas terror activities and comparing Israel to Putinâs Russia.
But during a BBC Masterclass event on âreporting war impartiallyâ on Friday, the 64-year-old took issue with its findings.
In a recording obtained by The Telegraph, Bowen said: â[Itâs] a deeply flawed document, in my opinion.
âThe Asserson report is a report that has been put together essentially saying we are anti-Semitic, isnât that right?â
David Jordan, the BBCâs director of editorial policy and standards, could then be heard correcting him, saying: âItâs basically saying weâre biased against Israel.
âThis is going through the BBCâs complaints process at the moment, so weâre probably best not to say anything about it.â
Bowen replied: âWhat I say, itâs about the truth. Weâre in the truth business. If we cannot tell the truth, something has gone very badly wrong and we have failed in our objectives.
âSo I will always try to tell the truth, but sometimes the truth is complicated⌠Itâs not âon the one handâ, and âon the other handâ, and the truth lies somewhere in between.
âNo, actually itâs sometimes the truth lies on that hand, and you have to say it, and I think that searching for some kind of spurious balance is entirely wrong.â
Greg Smith, the Tory MP for Buckingham, accused Mr Bowen of an âoutrageous responseâ.
âWhen in a hole, stop digging,â he said. âBut the BBC seem to have brought the excavator in and are making the matter a whole lot worse.â
âAn example of mistrustâ
It comes as MPs are set to pressure the BBC over an internal report on its coverage of Israel that has been âsuppressedâ for almost two decades.
Ordered in 2004 following repeated complaints of bias by the Israeli government, it was carried out by Malcolm Balen, a senior journalist.
The culture, media and sport committee is expected to raise the issue with the broadcaster when Parliament returns next month amid mounting criticism of its Middle Eastern coverage.
The Asserson report, which was led by Trevor Asserson, a British lawyer, has prompted fresh calls for the BBC to publish a separate internal inquiry, known as the Balen Report.
Lord Polak, the honorary president of the Conservative Friends of Israel, branded the decision to withhold the report âan example of mistrustâ.
The Conservative peer, who has previously called for the findings to be published, told The Telegraph: âEverything these days is about transparency and freedom of information. What is it that theyâre hiding in it?
âDonât be mysterious. By being mysterious, it allows people to form their own conclusions. If they want to just explain things, let us know what is it they may be hiding.â
Gary Mond, the chairman of the National Jewish Assembly, added: âIt is highly unfortunate that the findings of the Balen Report, produced in 2004, have never been published in the 20 years that have elapsed since. This has begged the question that the BBC is trying to hide something.
âWhatever those findings were, I do think that the BBC, as a provider of a major public service, has a responsibility to share the report and its conclusions with everyone. The National Jewish Assembly therefore calls for this to happen.â
Lord Austin, a crossbench peer, said: âThe findings of the Asserson Report are only the latest evidence of the BBCâs longstanding and deep-lying bias in its coverage of Israel.
âJeremy Bowen seems unable to acknowledge these editorial failings. If director-general Tim Davie is serious in his pledge to consider a deep systematic review of the BBCâs Middle East coverage, Mr Bowenâs deeply concerning track record should be right at the top of the agenda.â
The BBC has said its internal inquiry was commissioned âfor the purposes of journalismâ and so falls outside the scope of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.
âBalance of sympathyâ
Danny Cohen, a former BBC executive, last week warned there was an âinstitutional crisisâ at the national broadcaster and called for an independent inquiry into its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
Two leading Jewish groups, the Campaign Against Antisemitism and the National Jewish Assembly, added their voices to demands for a review.
The BBC last week strongly rejected claims in the Asserson report that its staff âcelebrated acts of terrorâ.
It said in a statement: âWe strongly reject the attack on individual members of BBC staff, all of whom are working to the same editorial guidelines.â
The corporation also raised âserious questionsâ about the methodology of the report, which used artificial intelligence to analyse nine million words of its coverage.
Stressing it was required to achieve âdue impartialityâ, the BBC said that this was already being achieved by its correspondents in lieu of the âbalance of sympathyâ the report wanted.
A BBC spokesman said: âWe have serious questions about the methodology of this report, particularly its heavy reliance on AI to analyse impartiality, and its interpretation of the BBCâs editorial guidelines.
âWe donât think coverage can be assessed solely by counting particular words divorced from context. We are required to achieve due impartiality, rather than the âbalance of sympathyâ proposed in the report, and we believe our knowledgeable and dedicated correspondents are achieving this, despite the highly complex, challenging and polarising nature of the conflict.
âHowever, we will consider the report carefully and respond directly to the authors once we have had time to study it in detail.
âThe most recent research shows that audiences are significantly more likely to turn to the BBC for impartial coverage than to any other provider. Independent research from More in Common found that the highest proportion of people thought BBC coverage of this story was mostly neutral.âENDS
You can imagine the nature the comments âŚ
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So I am now hearing that the Prime Minister who canât afford to pay for his own spectacles m cannot afford to pay for his wifeâs dresses. There is something very wrong in the State of Denmark, or rather the United Kingdom. We have a very corrupt government.
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Times Radio reporting that these were ‘high-end’ dresses donated by Lord Ali and that this may be a breach of parliamentary whatever.
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What about the footwear donated to Ms. Abbott by Left Foot Forward?
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Debs you’re poorly enough ….
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The United States is preparing to fight the BBC over âFree Speechâ
âAmerica First Legalâ has obtained internal CDC Documents revealing British Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) collusion with the Biden-Harris Government Censorship Regime. At this meeting, the CDU outlined how they have been censoring the British public, and these documents expose how left-wing authoritarian governments across the globe are working together to attack free speech.
The document reveals how the British governmentâs Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) coordinates censorship programs across the whole of the British government. The British Government imposes its censorship policy on the media using an Orwellian organisation called OFCOM. The British government also engages its foreign policy apparatus to further its censorship agenda. The British Government promotes the manipulation of the global population into believing that there is no alternative to massive government censorship of social media. In 2021, the British boasted of a close working relationship with the U.S., Australia, and Canada, as well as bilateral relationships with 20 additional countries.
Bobby Kennedy also plans to confront the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) lead, Trusted News Initiative (TNI), another British lead censorship and propaganda organisation. The British use the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) to collude with social media platforms to target and censor rival online news publishers, violating the Sherman antitrust laws and the First Amendment.
The British Government is also confronting Elon Musk in its desperate attempts to hide the Midazolam, Southport and Almondbury censorship scandals from the British public.
Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Executive Director, said âWith no apparent appreciation for the irony that the First Amendment to our Constitution was adopted following our independence from Great Britain, these records show that the Biden-Harris regime apparently engaged with representatives from the United Kingdom on ways to more effectively censor the speech of Americans across the country. The Biden-Harris Administrationâs desire to silence speech and control what information Americans are able to obtain is so extreme, so pervasive, and so over-the-top that they are willing to listen to foreign governments explain ways to better violate core constitutional rights of the American people. Freedom of speech is essential to the success of our democratic republic, and for the continued betterment of humanity. We will continue to expose those who oppose free speech, and will continue to fight for the rights of all Americans,â
https://aflegal.org/exclusive-america-first-legal-obtains-new-internal-cdc-documents-revealing-foreign-collusion-in-biden-harris-government-censorship-regime/
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You don’t have to be an utter moron to work at The Guardian…….
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Suggests – HA HA HA HA HA HA!
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If only Turdeau was squelching along a Donbas trench….
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1835065032180203538
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Starmer’s a fool
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âOi, SargeâŚ. no one told us Lucy Launcher was named after the Lusitaniaâ
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USA is a bit further away!
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Tomo
What about Iran, China, North Korea providing arms………………
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Kyiv is free to purchase arms from anywhere?
– oh, wait…. it’s a bit more complicated ain’t it…
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EUFA threatening to give the UK a red-card if they go ahead with Der Starmers plans for a Men’s Football Regulator.
I wonder which men the scum far-left thug wants to regulate?
https://www.goal.com/en-kw/lists/a-ban-england-uefa-champions-league-euros-uk-government-plans/blt23f5d822add413c6
“One particular area of concern stems from one of Uefa’s fundamental requirements, which is that there should be no government interference in the running of football.”
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Another Perfesser the BBC can do business with.
https://x.com/anfieldexile/status/1834512555168923988?s=61
đď¸ âpupils from prestigious private schools who went to leading universities were 52 times more likely to reach ĂŠlite positions in society than those who attended any other schools.â I rest my case. Privilege is embedded. Time for racial change đš
Shame about the predictive text.
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Battle of Britain Day .
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I went to our local parade, and was very proud of the youngsters who turned out in the air cadets. Sadly the weather was bloody horrible.
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Existential crisis edition
Nurses: Six months to save NHS… Despite the promise of extra billions in Chancellor Gordon Brown’s Budget a fortnight ago, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual congress in Bournemouth was told that the NHS was “at risk” (BBC, April 2000)
The prognosis worsens over time…
Three Months to Save the NHS… on the brink of disaster and the government must immediately prepare for an existential crisis this winter (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, August 2022)
Keir Starmer, prompted by Esther Rantzen and no doubt frustrated by previous administrations’ failed NHS reforms, perceives the only logical course of action to be to put it out of its misery…
At age 76 and with expert medical opinion convinced our NHS has less than 6 months to live… the precident is set
A law to allow terminally-ill adults with a life expectancy of less than six months to end their lives with medical help… Assisted dying set to be ‘rushed into law’… after Keir Starmer backs plans to fast-track it through the Commons… The Prime Minister is privately paving the way for a vote before Christmas (Daily Mail)
I believe it was the radical Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre, of the notorious French revolutionary Committee of Public Safety, who first set the trend of lawyers becoming national premiers.
He was the arch repressor of the Revolution’s opponents, enforcer of revolutionary laws and eliminator of counter-revolutionary elements, accepting the function of “public accuser” in 1791, he voted to support the introduce of revolutionary concepts into schools, in 1794 he wrote: Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue
Fun with flags
Inglorious flag wars tarnish the Proms (Sunday Times) – how so, you ask?
Soprano Angel Blue charms Last Night of the Proms audience (BBC) – you guessed it, she’s black
The clue was in the word ‘vibrant’: Angel Blue wowed the Royal Albert Hall with her vibrant, engaging stage presence (BBC)
BBC Proms overtaken AGAIN by EU symbols despite vow to ban ‘protest’ flags (GB News)
Thousands of EU flags to be distributed at BBCâs Last Night of the Proms… ‘We will continue to campaign until we achieve music without borders. Freedom of movement is a fundamental part of this.’ (Left Foot Forward, Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead)
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead… music without borders? I’m oddly reminded of Peter Gabriel’s Games Without Frontiers (1980)
Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching’s is blue
They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu
Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games
Hiding out in treetops, shouting out rude names
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers
War without tears
Games without frontiers
War without tears
Jeux sans frontières
Jeux sans frontières
Remoaners’ evening ruined as EU flags confiscated at Last Night of the Proms… Policy regarding flag-holding caused confusion at the Royal Albert Hall after some audience members had their EU flags removed. (Daily Express)
Two-tier Albert Hall?
EU flags confiscated from concert-goers at Last Night of the Proms… Confusion over Royal Albert Hallâs banned items policy frustrates prommers as security appears inconsistent (Telegraph)
Speaking of (supposed… proxy?) war without tears, games without frontiers – as we were just now…
Go it alone and let Ukraine fire missiles, PM told… after Washington stalemate, five ex-defence ministers say UK shouldn’t wait for US backing (Sunday Times)
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y’all
Edwin Starr (1970), Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1984)
Have a good weekend, won’t you.
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